[E-rundbrief] Info 1747 - Nobel Women's Initiative WomenPeaceKorea

[Matthias Reichl]

E-Rundbrief Info 1747 - Nobel Women's Initiative (CDN): Dispatch from 
South Korea: #WomenPeaceKorea

Bad Ischl, 26.5.2018

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Nobel Women's Initiative

Dispatch from South Korea: #WomenPeaceKorea

May 25 2018

https://nobelwomensinitiative.org/80-million-hearts-broken ...

"Peace is unstoppable, and we are not waiting for the United States to 
make peace happen on the Korean peninsula."
– Christine Ahn.

In the aftermath of yesterday's deeply disappointing news that 
American President Donald Trump has cancelled next month's Korea peace 
summit with North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un, our #WomenPeaceKorea: A 
New Era delegation with Women Cross DMZ has not stopped mobilizing for 
peace.

Our delegation of 30 women security experts and feminist peace 
activists from around the world spent the morning meeting with 
government officials and foreign ministries in Seoul. Our American 
delegates met with diplomats at the US Embassy to discuss how women 
can play a constructive role in establishing a diplomatic peace 
process between the United States and North Korea.

Following the morning meetings, our delegates came together outside 
the American embassy for a press conference to address this latest 
announcement. Nobel peace laureate, Mairead Maguire, and International 
Coordinator of Women Cross DMZ, Christine Ahn, spoke to a crowd of 
journalists and observers about the critical importance of a 
diplomatic peace process which includes women's movements in the 
mediation. Watch the press conference here.

"I say to President Trump and Chairman Kim: be courageous and sit down 
and work for peace and reunification for Korean families and the 
Korean peninsula." – Mairead Maguire.

After the press conference, we held a demonstration to protest 
American President Donald Trump's decision. Our delegation was blocked 
from delivering our petition to the US Embassy by a strong police 
presence forming a blockade, with several other demonstrations taking 
place nearby. Watch scenes from the protest here.

In the afternoon the delegation met with the office of the South 
Korean Minister of Gender Equality. This was followed by more strategy 
discussions, including the decision to hold a Global Day of Solidarity 
with the Korean people for peace on June 12, when the summit was 
originally meant to take place. We are calling for President Moon and 
Chairman Kim to meet as scheduled and to fulfil the commitments 
outlined in the Panmunjeom Declaration.

"Peace isn’t just up to two men. It’s up to the people and the leaders 
of North and South Korea, and that peace train has long left the 
station." – Christine Ahn.

#WomenPeaceKorea ended the day in a show of solidarity with the Korean 
people and women's movements by joining student protests outside the 
US Embassy calling for peace and diplomacy.

FOLLOW:
#WomenPeaceKorea on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

#WOMENPEACEKOREA IN THE NEWS:

Read our #WomenPeaceKorea: A New Era news release in response to 
Trump's summit cancellation.

Watch Christine Ahn on Democracy Now to address the repercussions of 
the announcement.

TAKE ACTION:

Sign our petition to President Moon, Chairman Kim, President Trump, 
and President Xi to remind them of their countries' commitments to UN 
Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, and 
call on them to ensure that women’s movements are included in the 
Korean peace process.

Show your support by taking a picture of yourself with one of our 
posters, and tweeting it out with the hashtag #WomenPeaceKorea.

Website
Nobel Women's Initiative
430-1 Nicholas Street Ottawa, ON
K1N 7B7
https://nobelwomensinitiative.org

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     Matthias Reichl, Pressesprecher/ press speaker,
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